Articles for Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik

Villagers use contaminated river water while R100-million sewage project delayed

Tsomo waste water treatment works were meant to be completed two years ago

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News | 9 September 2024

Eastern Cape school kept results from matriculant because she owed the school money

Education department apologises to learner and arranges for the family to get the results

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News | 28 August 2024

Protesters beg for development in their small Eastern Cape town

Tsomo residents march to municipal offices

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News | 21 August 2024

King promises to help as extortion hits Mthatha schools

Syndicate closing down businesses and schools

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News | 21 August 2024

Cost of taxi rank balloons from R5.8-million to more than R20-million

It’s been a long wait for commuters in Tsomo

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Brief | 14 August 2024

Eight years and counting - sewage spills into Butterworth river

Municipality blames illegal connections for pump station failure

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News | 12 August 2024

Multi-million rand Matatiele sports centre still unfinished after six years

But the municipality says the project is on track to being completed

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News | 8 August 2024

Eastern Cape schools battle low learner numbers and teacher shortages

The education department wants to close some of these schools. But parents say they can’t afford transport fees to other schools.

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News | 8 August 2024

Kidnapped shop owner found murdered

“We did the negotiations by ourselves because the police made it very clear that there’s nothing they can do to help us.”

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News | 7 August 2024

Apartheid-era hostel causing a stink in Eastern Cape town

More than 200 families live in the dilapidated Molo hostel in Butterworth without toilets - and the smell is annoying the neighbours

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News | 26 July 2024

Apartheid-era flats are “a ticking time bomb”

Residents want the broken-down flats fixed; the municipality says the residents must first pay rent

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News | 23 July 2024

No, we won’t move, say Butterworth shack dwellers

Residents of Sikiti informal settlement fear they’ll be forgotten if they agree to move to serviced sites nearby

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News | 11 July 2024

Butterworth families evicted by chiefs in 2011 are still waiting for promised houses

People of Bhungeni were moved to make way for a mall which has still not been built

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News | 9 July 2024

Musicians in “Little Jazz Town” want Gayton McKenzie to fix their broken arts centre

Komani jazz legend Mlungisi Gegana blames the Eastern Cape arts department for the collapse of the centre

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News | 3 July 2024

The traffic department that hasn’t issued a ticket for years

“We used to have ticket books, but they were stolen” says a traffic officer in Ngcobo, Eastern Cape

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News | 15 May 2024